Example sentences of "[be] that they [verb] [verb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 For others it might be that they wish to maintain the relationship between the father and the children and fear that ill-feeling will be created by a vigorous pursuit of maintenance .
2 Their crime seemed to be that they had sung the song ‘ Hernando 's Hideaway ’ too loudly .
3 They may need to reorganize because of demography — that 's the number of pupils that are in a particular area , where you 've got too many schools , or it may be that they want to change the type of offer , such as some of us want to do in the City of Oxford .
4 Include it in that , those twelve weeks because I know it 's , you know , a bit erm I would try and see if I could set up some sex education with the health centre and the , you know , that she used to take them and they went through contraception and condoms and whatever at the , and she used to take them down for an afternoon it might well be that they have to miss a lesson
5 It may be that they have discussed the matter with other witnesses , or even the opposition , and reconsidered their evidence .
6 It may be that they have been healed ; it may be that they have known the manifest presence of God as the church has drawn near to him in worship .
7 It may be that they have found a way to train humans .
8 Well , the trouble is that they 've got a closed
9 Their common feature — if I can capture the interest of hon. Members — is that they seek to ensure the efficacy and integrity of the judicial process , which is of concern to us all , so that justice may be administered to all without interference from any quarter .
10 One disadvantage of general library skills workbooks is that they tend to teach the use of the library and its resources in isolation from other studies .
11 The use or significance of ‘ stills ’ and long shots in this context is that they tend to lessen the impact of the coverage , making it less attractive and exciting , thus diminishing , so the argument goes , the likelihood of imitation .
12 Most people are aware , for instance , that a major link between those who suffer heart attacks is that they tend to have a high level of cholesterol in the blood .
13 A further reason why such dichotomies as are embodied in the quantitative–qualitative distinction should not be allowed to dominate our thinking is that they tend to obscure the sheer and sometimes bewildering variety of materials that can qualify as data .
14 ‘ The bad news is that they want to see a first draft script within three weeks . ’
15 The result is that they fail to do the jobs they take on , witness the case of an operating system for the PERQ computer ( This Week , 20 January , p 144 ) .
16 But the danger in some ‘ deconstructionist ’ theories , however , is that they seem to leave no space for the material struggles or ordinary aspirations of women .
17 The significance of the oxygen isotope data reported by Woodhead and colleagues is that they appear to require an upper crustal or sedimentary component in the lavas of the Pitcairn seamounts .
18 Of course , whether the Anura constitute a family , an order , or a class is an arbitrary matter : the point is that they do constitute a natural group .
19 " The problem with pots , though , is that they do need a lot of care .
20 The reason I cite these tales is that they do have a bearing on one another , albeit a tenuous .
21 Right , now if we look on , erm we come to Regional Action Networks , another reason why Amnesty seems not to allocate more than one prisoner and all now is that they have expanded the ways in which we deal with prisoners and the world is more or less been divided up into areas , erm , of smaller regions and groups are asked to choose one or two regions to deal with particularly and we , we have for quite a long time now erm been concerned with Southern Africa and Central America and we get information through on prisoners and what 's happening in those two regions , so John do you have anything else on Africa at all ?
22 What seems to have happened is that they have internalised the negative images that are attributed to black people and do not feel that they should identify with them .
23 The corollary is that they have accepted a range of obligations to provide support for non-household kin .
24 The fourth characteristic of each of the three countries is that they have had the luck to avoid the worst of the droughts which have badly affected agriculture and hydro-electric power supplies in many African countries in the 1970s and 1980s .
25 However , one charge that can not reasonably be made against the Government is that they have privatized the service .
26 The problem , however , was that they kept blaming the tenants ' ’ lifestyle ’ for the dampness , refused to accept responsibility and spent unknown amounts of money treating the symptoms by using chemical washes to try and kill the fungus .
27 Even when the study appeared , there was a great deal of scepticism within NoS , but the attitude was that they had consulted the experts and got the evidence .
28 In effect , the message being sent to John and the other hostages was that they had to keep a stiff upper lip and hope that , one day , the kidnappers might let them go .
29 The tragedy of the industry was that they had won the battle only by turning their back on the price mechanism : a procedure for resource allocation which , arguably , is the best medium for the decentralisation of decision making to firms in the modern economy .
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